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...from a vague feeling that Nixon may have "bottomed out" after widespread criticism of his released transcripts, is now recovering, and might yet survive. One sign of the change was Republican Leader John Rhodes' complaint that the Judiciary Committee ought to stop chasing tapes and call witnesses to pin down any uncertainties in the evidence it already holds. Earlier Rhodes had been among the Republicans suggesting that Nixon might have to consider resignation...
Coggan began his career in a working-class parish, and as a bishop has kept contact with ordinary folk by visiting breweries, mines and shipyards. He occasionally dons a cassock, but generally wears a simple pin-stripe suit with purple vest. Says he: " 'Your Grace' and all that doesn't mean very much to me. It's not the label on the bottle but what's inside that matters...
...frumpy Gert is as disconcertingly direct as the belaying pin with which she flattens obstreperous patrons of her waterfront bar. If one of the seamen who frequent her place takes her sexual fancy, she issues a pointblank invitation to him to follow her upstairs. In recent months she has limited her favors to a virile ship's engineer named Harry, who possesses an unholy thirst and an unquenchable lust. Harry (Edward J. Moore) is as lean as Jack Sprat, and he and Gert (Conchata Ferrell) form the oddly discrepant, frantically energetic alliance of a harbor tug docking an ocean...
Without introduction, the tall, lean candidate in his dark-rimmed glasses and conservatively cut pin-stripe suit, appearing more like a professor than a politician, strode toward the podium. Only a huge photo of him and his 14-year-old daughter decorated the former chapel of a convent in Colmar. Then quickly, his hands clasped behind his back, Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 48, broke into the pedantic delivery that has become a trademark in his campaign to succeed the late Georges Pompidou as President of France...
...very difficult, sophisticated play--a stripped and probably lost-in-translation parable--ambition is commendable. The one-dimensional portrayal of the townspeople may only accentuate a repetitiveness built into the play itself. Perhaps it is only a small fault that the society that Andri can't pin down as either antagonistic or welcoming seems to know the answer too soon...